Ben Hardaway
Personal Info
Know For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1895-05-21 (62 years old)
Deathday
1957-02-05
Place of Birth
Belton, Missouri, USA
Also known As
Joseph Benson Hardaway
Joseph B. Hardaway
Ben 'Bugs' Hardaway
Bugs Hardaway
B. Hardaway
Buggsy Hardaway
J.B. Hardaway
Bugsy Hardaway
J. B. Hardaway
Ben Hardaway
Biography
Joseph Benson 'Ben' (a.k.a. 'Bugs') Hardaway (May 21, 1895 – February 5, 1957) was an American storyboard artist, animator, voice actor, gagman, writer and director for several American animation studios during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation. While at the Leon Schlesinger / Warner Bros. studio during the late 1930s, Hardaway, in 1938, co-directed Porky's Hare Hunt, the first film to feature a rabbit. When this unnamed, embryonic rabbit was given a new model sheet for a later short, since, according to Chuck Jones, Hardaway "didn't draw it very well", designer Charlie Thorson inadvertently offered a permanent name by titling the model ...
Acting
1982
as Various Voices
1946
as Woody Woodpecker / Starvation (voice)
1945
as Woody Woodpecker / Bull Dozer (voice)
1946
as Woody Woodpecker (voice)
1946
as Woody Woodpecker (voice)
1948
as Woody Woodpecker (voice)
1948
as Woody Woodpecker (voice)
1942
as Woody Woodpecker (voice)
1945
as Woody Woodpecker (voice) (uncredited)
1944
as Woody Woodpecker (voice)
1944
as Woody Woodpecker (voice)
1942
as Woody Woodpecker
1945
as Woody Woodpecker (voice)
1944
as Woody Woodpecker
1941
as Woody Woodpecker (voice)
1939
as Dizzy Duck
1947
as Woody Woodpecker (voice) (uncredited)
1947
as Woody Woodpecker (voice)
1947
as Woody Woodpecker (voice)
1945
as Woody Woodpecker (voice)
Production
1940
as Story
1942
as Story
1942
as Writer
1945
as Story
1944
as Writer
1944
as Writer
1943
as Story
1945
as Story
1941
as Story
1939
as Director
1941
as Story
1943
as Story
1943
as Story
1941
as Story
1944
as Story
1942
as Story
1941
1946
as Writer
1946
as Writer
1938
as Director
1939
as Director
1939
as Director
1934
as Director
1934
as Director
1934
as Director
1934
as Director
1940
as Director
1935
as Director
1935
as Director
1935
as Director
1935
as Director
1939
as Director
1938
as Director
1943
as Director
1938
as Director
1938
as Director
1939
as Director
1939
as Director
1939
as Director
1939
as Director
1939
as Director
1947
as Writer
1947
as Writer
1945
as Story
1948
as Story
1942
as Story
1942
as Writer
1936
as Story
1945
as Story
1946
as Story
1946
as Story
1948
as Story
1948
as Writer
1951
as Story
1947
as Writer
1946
as Writer
1941
as Story
1942
as Writer
1949
as Writer
1948
as Writer
1948
as Writer
1951
as Story
1940
as Story
1942
as Writer
1946
as Writer
1934
as Story
1935
as Story
1934
as Story
1933
as Story
1934
as Story
1939
as Director
1935
as Script
1940
as Story
1938
as Story
1938
as Story
1947
as Story
1940
as Story
1944
as Story
1946
as Story
1945
as Story
1951
as Story
1941
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